Screen



W. LEININGER.

SCREEN.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 5, 1920.

Patented June 7, 192];

4 5140 eyvfqz W'Zlm nrr s WILLIAM LEININGER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO JOHN J. LEININGER, OF LONG ISLAND CITY, NEW YORK.

SCREEN reenter.

Specification bf Letters Patent.

Patented June 7, 19211..

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, VILLIAM LEININGER, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Astoria, in the borough and county of Queens, city and State of New York, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Screens, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to screens particularly adapted for windows, and it is the primary object of the invention to provide a screen which is adapted for different sizes of window sash openings in window frames.

It is a further object of the invention to provide an improved screen for this purpose comprising woven wire fabric carrying frame sections adjustable relative to each other-to adapt the same for window frames of dif ferent widths, and to provide improved means to attach the wire fabric or netting to the frames and the connecting ofthe frame members, and arranging the frame members so that one frame section will have a slidable connection with another section, and provide a structure which is novel, cheap in structure and eflicient in use.

It is another object of the invention to provide a screen of the sliding frame type not only adapted for adjustment for different widths of window frames but to also provide for adjustment of the screen lengthwise of the window frame.

It is a further object of the invention to provide a screen comprising a woven wire fabric carrying, frame, certain of which frame members are rigid and other members flexible whereby said flexible members may be flexed to provide for adjustment of the screen.

Another object of the invention relates to a screen consisting of slidably connected woven wire fabric'or netting carrying frame sections, one of the members of :which sections is rigid and with said members of one section arranged for slidable engagement for the rigid members ofanother frame section to permit of adjustment of the screen in one direction, and in which the other frame members are yielding and flexible to provide adjustment in a direction opposite to the direction of the sliding movement of the frames.

A still further object of the invention is to provide a screen in which certain of the frame members are provided with closure means to maintain the space produced by the flexing of the frame members at the lateral ends of the screen closed.

In the drawing accompanying and forming a part of this specification Figure 1 is a perspective view of a portion of a window frame and window with a screen applied thereto, illustrating an embodiment of my invention.

Fig. 2 is a sectional side elevation of the window frame and my improved screen applied thereto.

Fig. 3 is a sectional side elevation showingthe modified manner of adjusting the screen in the window frame.

Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the component parts of my improved screen in disassembled position, a portion of the screen being removed for a clearer understanding of the invention.

Fig. 5 is a cross sectional detail view taken on the line 5 5 of Fig. 4 to show the manner of attaching the closure means for the space at the lateral ends of the screen produced by the flexing of certain of the frame members.

Fig. 6 is a sectional detail view in perspective taken on the line 6-6 of Fig. 4 to show the inannerof attachingthe woven wire fabric to one of the rigid portions of a screen section, and the arrangement of said section for the slidable engagement of the rigid member of the other screen section; and

Fig. 7 is a sectional view in perspective taken on the line 77 of Fig. 4 showing the manner of attaching the wire fabric to the flexible members and such flexible members to the rigid part of one of the screen sections, and said member arranged to have slidable engagement with a rigid member of another screen section.

Similar characters of reference designate like parts throughout the different views of the drawing.

In the drawing 1 have shown my invention in connection with a frame 8 of usual construction arranged with guideways 9, 1O

for the slidable engagement of window one relative to the other. A woven wire fabric or netting 13 perferably of rectangular shape is attached orsecured at opposite side portions to flexible members of resilient or spring metal 14 by wrapping the ends of the fabric or netting around said members with the body portion of the netting in overlapped relation to the end thereof as shown' at 15 in Fig. 7. The opposite end portions of the fabric are attached or secured to members or rails, preferably of rigid metal,these rails for one screen section being shown at 16 (Fig. 6), and the other section at 17 (Fig. 7).

The rail 16 comprises sheet metal bent longitudinally upon itself to provide a U shaped portion 18 for the engagement of the edge of the fabric and also for the engagement of the ends of th members 14, and said fabric and members 14 attached or secured thereto by clamping the opposite walls of the U shaped portion upon said fabric andmembers 14, the latter also .being fastened thereto as by rivets or soldering. These rails 16 are also arranged with another U shaped portion 19 to serve as a slideway for the slidable engagement of the rail 17 of theother screen sectlon and thereby permit of lateral adjustment of the screen sections to adapt the same to window frames of difi'erent widths. The fabric and resilient members 14 of the other screen section are also attached or secured to the rail members 17 by said sections similar to securing said fabric and members 14 to the rails 16, these rails 17 consisting of sheet metal bent longitudinally upon themselves as clearly shown in Fig. 7, the portion 19 of the rails 16 being omitted from the rails 17.

By the provision of the resilient members 14 adjustment of the screen lengthwise of the window is provided for, as by flexing these members the length of the screen from top to bottom, as viewed in the drawings, may be shortened which'may be of greater or less extent as desired and thereby compensate for variations in sizes of window frames ofstandard size. A screen as described may engage in one of the guideways, as 9, of the window frame between the window sash and sill and thereby providea screen closure for the space of the window sash 12 and permit of said latter sash to be adjusted to variable open positions, without leaving an opening between said sash and the other sash 11 or the window frame, as shown in Fig. 3. By making the fabric supporting members 14 resilient and the attaching of the fabric thereto by wrapping the latter around said members close contact is maintained between said members and the body portion of the fabric, without any possibility of openings therebetween.

To provide a closure at the opposite side portions of the screen sections should the fabric supporting members 14 be flexed to any considerable extent as shown at 20, said closure consisting of fabric or the like 21 attaching in edge to edge relation with the outer members 14 of the screen sections, as by stitching, and to facilitate this attachment a piece of cordage may be interposed between the netting and the edge of the member 14, as shown at 22 in Fig. 5.

The fabric 21 is also attached to rods consisting of telescoping sections 23 and 24 engaging in a loop or seam of the fabric 21, as shown in Fig. 5. These rods are removably connected to the outer ends of the rails 16 and 17 of the screen sections by means of screws 26 passing through the end portions of the rod sections and threaded into studs 27 having a flattened portion clamped between the portions of the rails in which the wire fabric engages, and may be fixed therein as by soldering.

Variation may be resorted to within the scope of my invention, and portions of the invention may be used without others without departing from the scope thereof.

Having thus described my invention T is also attached and said members secured;

at opposite ends to the rigid members, a telescoping rod at opposite ends of the rigid members, one section of each of the telescoping rods being pivotally connected to one of the rigid members and the other section of the telescoping rod being pivotally connected to the other rigid member, and fabric attached to the telescoping rods and the wire fabric adjacent the resilient members.

2. In a screen of the class specified, a pair of screen sections of woven wire fabric, rigid members to which each fabric section is attached, resilient members attached to the edge portions of the fabric sections to extend at right angles to the rigid members the edge portions of the fabric sections toextend at right angles to the rigid members and secured at opposite ends to the rigid members, the rigid members of one Screen section being arranged with a slideway and the rigid members of the other screen section arranged to slidably engage in the slideways of such rigid. members whereby the screen sections are slidably adjustable relative to each other and both sections are adapted to have flexing movement, a pair of telescoping rods one end of one section of a telescoping rod being pivotally connected to one end of a rigid member and the other section of the rod pivotally connected to the end of the opposite rigid member of such screen section, and one end of a section of the other telescoping rod being pivotally connected to the opposite end of a rigid member and the other section of such telescoping rod being pivotally connected to the opposite end of the other rigid member of the other screen section, and fabric attached to the telescoping rods and the adjacent edge of a Woven wire fabric section for the purpose specified. 

